#WorldChildlessWeek #CommentsThatHurt "Have You Considered Adoption?" Read Karin Enfield @GatewayWomenBNL story of how the cancer that made her and her husband childless also rendered them ineligible for adoption... So yes, she HAS "thought" about it... https://bit.ly/39cGhXN
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Michelle writes about her experience as single, chroniclly ill, childless by circumstance dealing with the "pronatalism on steroids" she's experienced in lockdown, and how the GW Online Community has been her refuge:
https://bit.ly/2ZPesk3
#WorldChildlessWeek #CommentsThatHurt - Some great guidelines on how to take care of your childless friend if you are a mother. Thank you to Sarah Bradley, who is one of the coaches for childlessness that GW recommends. https://bit.ly/3mAWtI7
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Liz from Melbourne, Australia on how hard and hurtful it's been during lockdown for her pain and situation to be trivilialized by some parents and in the media. https://bit.ly/32IAV44 And more @childlessweek #Pronatalism #ChildlessInLockdown
"Many within the childless community can empathise with parents and find there are alternate ways to express their maternal/paternal side, yet we often hear the stinging words “life began the day I became a mom/dad!”
http://bit.ly/2NmPzb7
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#WorldChildlessWeek 2018 If you missed the #CommentsThatHurt day (this year's was "You don't know true love until you have a child") don't worry - the whole day of amazing program remains live on the website for the whole year http://bit.ly/2xjGqq2 #pronatalism #grief
#WorldChildlessWeek: Day 5 'Comments That Hurt' Andreia Trigo @andreia_trigo responds with "Don't tell me I don't know true love" - a powerful short video. http://bit.ly/2NdSVgD #CommentsThatHurt #Familiesof2